Faculty Profile

Francisco Castillo Trigueros
NMS Composition Faculty

Francisco Castillo Trigueros (b. 1983) is a composer of contemporary chamber, orchestral and electronic music from Mexico City currently residing in Chicago. He has received numerous distinctions such as the BMI Student Composer Award, and an honorable mention in the 2011 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.

Francisco has worked extensively with ensembles that integrate instruments and performers from different parts of the world. He has also composed many works for traditional classical music ensembles and orchestras, sometimes including the use of electronics.

Orchestras, ensembles and performers that have performed his music include the Holland Symfonia, Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, the Atlas Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Asko Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the Enso String Quartet, Jason Alder, Brian Conelly, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Jennifer Humphreys and Kate Christensen.

His mentors and teachers include Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Kotoka Susuki, Howard Sandroff at the University of Chicago; Theo Loevendie, Richard Ayres, Fabio Nieder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam; Shih-Hui Chen, Kurt Stallman, Pierre Jalbert at Rice University; and Haruko Shimizu and Jose Tavarez in Mexico City.

Francisco has led the lab complimenting the Introduction to Computer Music course as a teaching assistant to Howard Sanfroff at the University of Chicago, where he will also teach a composition course during the 2011-12 academic year.